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Season 21 · Episode 27
Landed Mon, 19 Jan 2026 · 15:00 your time · 1 episode · 30m
Season 21, Episode 27 of Only Connect aired Monday, 19 January 2026 at 8pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S21E27Third Place Play-OffVictoria Coren Mitchell hosts the quiz where knowledge only gets you so far – the vital extra ingredients are logic and lateral thinking.These teams have met before, and revenge is in the air. But it's a semi-final, and the difficulty of the questions has gone up a notch. For example: grotesque figure, evil spirit of the dead, tribe of hairy women and man of the forest – what's the connection?
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